French Designer Heart | Valentine's Day Hairstyles

February 11, 2009

Heart #3 – The Designer Heart

This is a very cute Valentine’s Day Hairstyle that uses a French Braiding technique.  The ribboning is absolutely optional, but can add a very unique holiday look…

Items Needed: brush, comb, hairspray, spray bottle, one rubber band (optional: ribbons).

Time Requirement: 8-10 minutes with no ribbon, 15-20 with the ribbon.

Start by wetting down and brushing hair. Part the hair in the center…

Now part down to each ear. Rubber band these different sections to keep them out of the way…

Starting with the section on the left-front of head, part another diagonal line right in the middle. You will now essentially have two triangle-shaped sections…

Have your daugher hold the one closest to her ear. Begin to do a french braid. The easiest way to figure out where to start is to just follow the pictures (I don’t know how to describe it without being confusing)…

Continue to braid toward her face until you run out of hair in that section…

You will now turn the braid around and being braiding toward the back of her head while picking up hair from the section she was holding. When you run out of hair from section #2, you will have this…

Continue a regular braid to the end of hair and have your daughter hold. Repeat on other side. When you are done with both braids, combine the hair and rubber band to secure.

Now at this point you have two options:

Option #1 – Leave the hair as is, adding a ribbon at the rubber band.

Option #2 – Add ribbon through the braid to emphasize the braid.

I have done both before. Today I did the ribbon so you could see. But to be completely honest, I’m not great at the ribbon … I certainly need to practice my ribbon weaving skills!

I started with two long ribbons (about 18 inches) and began by the rubber band, weaving the ribbon through the entire braid. I bobby pinned the ends of the ribbon to hold them in place. I didn’t recognize that the bobby pin showed so much until after the pictures, so I hid it better later. I then tied the ends in a bow around the rubber band.

I saw this braid on “The Story of a Princess and Her Hair”. To see her blog click here. She is the master at ribboning in hair. Although she didn’t add ribbon to this particular hairstyle.

Happy Hairdoing!

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